Results: Australian MTBA Marathon Championship, Qld (NC)

Gordon overcomes Lewis to take 2nd National title.

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World Champion, Craig Gordon proved too strong for Australia’s best mountain bike riders won his second Australian Marathon Championships in Coffs Harbour over the weekend.

The 34 year old retains the inaugural jersey he won last year in Toowoomba. Gordon won by 9 minutes and 44 seconds holding off Canberra’s Shaun Lewis and Matthew Fleming (Helensburgh, SYD). Lewis outsprinted Fleming for second place. Early race leader, Ben Mathers from Launceston had a flat tyre which gave him an eventual fourth place.
Gordon went into the event as the favourite after claiming the prestigious World Championship in 24 hour solo racing last October. Gordon has earnt a lasting reputation as one of the sports best endurance athletes after he defeated six-time World Champion, Chris Eatough from the USA. Gordon spent three days in hospital after pushing his body tot he limit.
“If you do a 24 hour race like I did you just look back and nothing compares,” he commented.
Gordon was still elated to win his second marathon national jersey. “If you’re a defending champion it’s always harder,” he said. “It always feels good to win but you never underestimate your opponents.”
Mathers lay down the early challenge by leading the field for the first half of the race.
“When Ben went up the road I was asking the boys about him. I heard he was a strong road rider. That’s when I decided to go,” said Gordon.
Gordon rode most of the final sections of the course alone reaching speeds of up to 60 km per hour. “I love it by myself,” he said.

The course received high recommendations from Gordon. “It’s got awesome single track,” he said. “I pre-rode a bit of it but I would say nearly 60 percent of it was single track.”
Lewis, 26, was content with second. “It’s one better than last year,” he said. “We knew Craig was too far in front to catch. He just had too much lead.”

The women’s race came down to a sprint for the line with Launceston’s Rowena Fry taking eventual honours. At two hundred metres to go, Fry out sprinted Brisbane’s Jodie Willett to win by 7 seconds. Fry rode an impressive 5 hours 16 minutes and 20 seconds after leading most of the race.
“I didn’t mean to take it out hard. I found myself out in front and just thought I’d keep it going while the going’s good,” she admitted.
“I was cooked at two hours into it and I just kept pushing through it. I managed to hold on,” she said.

The women’s field started before the men’s and by the 50 km mark Fry was leading the women’s race while her partner, Ben Mather, was leading the men’s.
“Ben passed me and then got a flat. It would’ve been good to get the double,” she said.
Fry is a member of the “Dirt Roads to London” program but was not expected to match the highly ranked Katrina Van Spiegel from Sydney who finished a creditable third. Brisbane’s Imogen Smith finished in fourth.

Over 415 riders competed in the full, half or quarter distance event.

Open Men

1 Craig Gordon             4.00.45.5
2 Shaun Lewis                 9.44.3
3 Matthew Fleming             9.47.7
4 Ben Mather                 12.51.8
5 Jeff Toohey                13.16.8
6 Jason English              16.58.5
7 James Williamson           30.36.1
8 Glenn Stewart              34.53.6
9 Troy Glennan               40.14.0
10 Josh Keep                 41.25.9
11 Andrew Crawley            41.30.5
12 Andrew Wilcher            41.32.8
13 Andrew Blair              41.56.5
14 Ryan Lennox               41.57.7
15 Daniel Radford            44.46.4
16 Saul Britton              52.03.7
17 Ryan Hawson               53.19.5
18 Simon Frederiksen         56.08.4
19 Grant Webster           1.16.34.5
20 James Lamb              1.17.12.6
21 Paul Traynor            1.17.43.6
22 Andrew Davison          1.20.02.4
23 Andrew Mallett          1.22.21.6
24 Hugh Flower             1.28.50.5
25 Ben Dyball              1.38.23.2
26 Mill Van                1.38.25.6
27 Graham Plowright        1.38.26.7
28 Chris Lander            1.41.38.1
29 Joshua Beck             1.41.49.6
30 Julian Fitzpatrick      1.44.44.5
31 Richard Dodds           1.55.11.8
32 Matthew Bourke          2.12.53.9
33 Tim Neal                2.18.57.4
34 Mark Fearman            2.34.40.5
35 Brendan Rowe            2.36.07.6
36 Darren Smith            2.36.08.6
37 Tony Kiehne             2.51.59.3
38 Michael Geale           3.04.03.9
39 Aaron Pickett-Heaps     3.07.27.5
40 Gary Haywood            3.20.49.4
DNS Jason Chalker                  
DNS Mark Frendo                    
DNS Ian Mcfadden                   
DNS Shane Paton                    
DNS Morgan Pilley                  
DNS Christopher White              
DNS James Kennedy                  
DNS Andrew Fellows                 
DNF Murray Spink                   
DNF Daniel Alcock                  
DNF Stuart Gallagher               
DNF Dennis Gillespie               
DNF David Harder                   
DNF Paul Mcdonald                  
DNF Richard Mountstephens          
DNF Michael Seelhofer              
DNF Brendan Sharratt               
DNF Jerome Smith                   
DNF David Wood                     
 
Open Women

1 Rowena Fry               5.16.20.4
2 Jodie Willett               0.07.8
3 Der Van                     4.06.5
4 Imogen Smith               14.38.0
5 Kimberley Fleming          50.03.2
6 Nina Wright              1.06.22.1
DNS Jacqui Hickey                  
DNF Naomi Hansen                   
DNF Justine Leahy                  
DNF Vanessa Mcdonald               
 
Men 18-29

1 Grant Widseth            5.18.09.0
2 Craig Armour               11.52.9
3 Rowan Frank                40.03.1
4 Todd Webster               51.04.7
5 Vincent Morrissey          51.54.9
6 Brad Hamblett              53.42.6
7 Aj Spath                 1.10.45.8
8 Shaun Wright             1.24.02.6
9 Cameron Taylor           1.50.47.2
10 Chris Stancombe         1.50.48.4
11 Nathan Schaeffer        2.02.10.8
12 Greg Fowler             2.12.14.3
13 Simon Clayton           2.27.08.2
DNS Ben Nicol                      
DNS Pat Galbraith-Robertson        
DNS Hayden Lester                  
DNS Ben Ong                        
DNF Matthew Hood                   
 
Women 18-29

1 Heike Hessenberger       6.55.37.1
2 Clare Sellers            1.16.08.2
DNF Anna Beck                      
 
Men 30-39

1 Stuart Lowndes           4.52.24.9
2 Dean Megahey                0.00.5
3 Lloyd Newell               15.59.9
4 Michael Norman             21.35.2
5 Simon Scott                28.40.3
6 Peter Kreilis              41.20.0
7 Russell Reid               50.44.9
8 Anthony Bamford            52.09.4
9 Jamie Vogele               53.40.4
10 Trent Hewitt              55.23.4
11 Mark Skeates            1.02.14.6
12 Aaron Donaldson         1.04.11.3
13 Solah Patrick           1.04.44.0
14 Aaron Wood              1.20.46.1
15 Haig Lennox             1.27.42.3
16 Steven Mair             1.27.43.4
17 Scott Humphris          1.30.02.3
18 Jnr Young               1.37.24.6
19 Damian Welbourne        1.43.56.1
20 Jeff Balchin            1.46.42.8
21 Ben Smith               1.48.43.4
22 Bruce Oscroft           1.50.11.9
23 Jason Patterson         1.51.51.5
24 Alan Kelk               1.55.43.4
25 David Kricker           1.56.27.2
26 Scott Bennie            1.56.28.5
27 Stephen Whitford        2.04.10.5
28 Gary Grieve             2.14.43.7
29 Alister Scotford        2.24.14.9
30 Jukka Ylinen            2.24.16.5
31 Simon Dobner            2.33.50.3
32 Allan Weir              2.36.33.9
33 Andrew Paton            2.39.37.4
34 Mathew Williams         2.42.34.3
35 Garry Jeffries          2.47.52.0
36 Glen Marshman           2.48.07.4
37 Richard Rooimans        2.48.07.8
38 Geoff Richardson        2.53.26.3
39 Adrien Thompson         2.54.51.2
40 Mark Orlovich           2.59.49.3
41 Tony Bishop             3.00.55.4
42 Jason Neatherway        3.07.46.3
43 David Spence            3.16.52.3
DNS Andrew Mannings                
DNS Stu Adams                      
DNS John Allen                     
DNS Craig Gallaway                 
DNS Travis Hicks                   
DNS Stuart Kane                    
DNS Brendan Moore                  
DNF Rod Burrows                    
DNF Lincoln Chatfield              
DNF Evan Davies                    
DNF Justin Dowey                   
DNF Peter Hampson                  
DNF Adrian Hawke                   
DNF Jnr Hoare                      
DNF Scott Johnson                  
DNF Michael Kingston               
DNF Reuben Roberts                 
DNF Toby Sorensen                  
DNF Craig Whiting                  
DNF Shane Williams                 
 
Women 30-39

1 Susan Sim                6.07.57.4
2 Alyssa Rogan               34.39.5
3 Adrienne Dougal          2.04.31.0
DNS Meg Chalker                    
DNS Kim Mcfadden                   
DNF Catherine Mclean               
DNF Carolin Skipka                 
  
Men 40-49

1 Geoff Gilchrist          4.43.54.9
2 Rob Eva                     4.51.4
3 Craig Peacock              18.07.7
4 Zyl Van                    27.21.8
5 Darryl Pursey              27.46.2
6 Ray Giddins                36.14.1
7 Linton Burns               37.32.5
8 Jason Kaul               1.03.03.4
9 Peter Winfield           1.04.03.5
10 Chris Mcdonald          1.07.23.6
11 Terry Flanagan          1.10.12.1
12 Phil Hystek             1.12.10.5
13 Nicholas Mills          1.20.19.5
14 Jon Allison             1.27.16.9
15 Mark Lewis              1.32.15.3
16 Martin Comer            1.32.21.7
17 Roger Hawley            1.32.55.4
18 Andrew Rowe             1.35.48.0
19 Russell Thompson        1.35.52.9
20 Stephen Knight          1.36.34.9
21 Jim Dolan               1.38.41.6
22 Duncan Miller           1.44.18.9
23 Stuart Norman           1.47.07.8
24 Frank Kenny             1.48.59.0
25 Neil Dall               1.50.02.6
26 Daly (Stealth)          1.58.28.9
27 Greg Pietersen          2.02.49.5
28 Bill Beaumont           2.09.26.0
29 Steve Guzzardi          2.09.39.9
30 Ian Holm                2.13.11.7
31 Simon Carter            2.19.56.8
32 Steven Pryor            2.20.44.8
33 Peter Cheesman          2.24.53.6
34 Craig Stevenson         2.35.20.8
35 Bill Howell             2.35.22.0
36 Greg Scott              2.39.23.4
37 Paul W, Smith           2.42.38.0
38 Scott Mcdermott         2.48.17.0
39 Rob Kirwood             2.57.15.4
40 James Fletcher          3.09.40.7
41 Stephen Karrasch        3.13.41.2
DNS Mark Hardy                     
DNS Peter Duncan                   
DNS Craig Pullen                   
DNS Con Toparis                    
DNS Paul Witzerman                 
DNS Richard Wellsmore              
DNF Gavin Burke                    
DNF Stephen Cichocki               
DNF Gordon Garradd                 
DNF Paul Grubner                   
DNF Simon Hong                     
DNF Charles Meyers                 
DNF Mark Taylor                    
DNF David West                     
DNF Ashley Grummitt                
 
Women 40-49

1 Sharon Heap              5.33.56.5
2 Meg Carrigan               43.45.3
DNF Kay Todd                       
DNF Tracy Fazackerley              
DNF Karen Ward                     
 
Men 50+

1 Hans Dielacher           4.54.15.7
2 Kevin Jones                39.51.8
3 Gary Poole               1.09.26.2
4 Dave Byrnes              1.20.52.7
5 Ian Grainger             1.23.11.2
6 Ian Forrest              1.44.39.5
7 David Brunner-Evans      1.48.37.4
DNF Graham Bell                    
DNF Peter Cooper                   
DNF Peter Holyfield                
DNF Graham Wand                    
DNF Snr Young                      
 
Half Marathon
 
Men 16-29

1 Josh Bosschieter         2.24.44.6
2 Brendan Sellers             0.02.6
3 Alan Ezzy                   0.27.8
4 Nigel Hoschke              33.44.6
5 Tom Patterson              36.08.3
6 Courtney Tune              37.35.0
7 Matt Hou                   37.49.8
8 Chad Vowles                46.45.8
9 Greg Lander                51.46.9
10 Coady Vogele              58.14.4
11 Matthew Morgan            59.47.1
12 Joel Young              1.06.32.0
13 Matthew Bell            1.11.54.8
14 Luke Cifuentes          1.18.18.1
15 Robert Brangwin         1.27.27.0
16 Mitchell Dale           1.30.33.9
17 Martin Garrett          1.42.13.2
18 Julian Wright           1.56.49.1
19 Kurt Huempel            2.04.03.1
DNS Jordan Beckerleg               
DNS Kyll Smith                     
DNS Murray Binet                   
DNF Andrew Wearing                 
 
Women 16-29

1 Tanya Pretty             3.46.39.3
2 Clare Waterhouse           28.21.4
2 Zoe Pogonowski                   
4 Elizabeth Allen            32.06.8
5 Danielle Smyth           1.33.44.6
 
Men 39-39

1 Craig Shepperson         2.32.41.6
2 Jason Morgan                1.59.0
3 Justin Thomas              10.25.0
4 Dave Marshall              10.36.3
5 Jayson Shelley             13.42.3
6 Simon Thomas               22.02.4
7 Jon Rutledge               24.19.4
8 Luke Palmer                24.43.1
9 Chris Dunne                26.44.1
10 David Mcdonald            27.12.0
11 Colin Shields             27.38.0
12 Austin Northey            29.41.9
13 Russell Madeley           29.46.1
14 Daniel Zabek              30.13.9
15 Raf Freire                33.09.2
16 Chris Herron              35.33.2
17 Jeremy Russ               35.51.4
18 Derek Saxil               37.09.7
19 Steve Harding             42.51.5
20 Liam Linstid              43.53.0
21 Tony Torr                 48.02.9
22 Duncan Pretty             50.14.7
23 Terry Garrett             51.36.2
24 Tienduc Phan              52.15.9
25 Mark Jones                56.26.1
26 Reece Smith               59.29.4
27 Darren Bates            1.01.14.7
28 Tim Marsh               1.06.56.6
29 Ian Mcdonald            1.13.28.8
30 David Paynter           1.15.35.0
31 Damien Peel             1.17.26.3
32 Clint Stephenson        1.20.52.7
33 Lee Gilbert             1.24.40.4
34 Richard Old             1.26.01.5
35 Jeffrey Atkinson        1.32.00.2
36 Shaun Preece            1.34.55.9
37 Sinclair Black          1.45.59.9
38 Matthew Ness            1.55.57.0
39 Wayne Bloss             1.58.11.2
40 Greg Budek              1.58.38.6
41 Matthew Driscoll        2.00.05.9
42 Andrew Coles            2.16.16.9
43 Robin Rainton           2.20.12.7
44 Stuart Mirabello        2.20.13.4
45 Paul Lambkin            2.21.43.0
46 Ian Turnbull            2.24.23.2
47 Alex Bramford           2.33.59.6
48 Daniel Cook             3.09.00.7
DNS Joshua Peel                    
DNS Scott Thompson                 
DNS Stephan Sambals                
DNS Craig Bennett                  
DNS Ant Lillycrop                  
DNF Mark Cash                      
DNF Brett Fleming                  
 
Women 30-39

1 Rebecca Eveleigh         2.57.47.1
2 Kerry Westwood             35.38.7
3 Lucy Maguire             1.12.45.8
4 Sharon Harrison          1.23.18.0
5 Magdalena Depa           1.24.41.1
6 Maree Sykes              1.39.31.7
7 Christine Carter         1.55.09.2
8 Melinda Willis           2.17.56.5
DNS Cindy Vogele                   
DNF Kerry Williams                 
DNF Kerith Naylor                  
 
Men 40-49

1 Phil Dunne               2.17.34.8
2 James Heron                24.03.5
3 Les Heap                   28.35.8
4 Greg Warburton             30.28.3
5 Brian Cockbain             35.43.0
6 Eric Horspool              36.46.5
7 Miles Morrison             43.49.7
8 David Cummins              46.37.5
9 Ken Mann                   49.49.8
10 Ian Andrews               53.15.7
11 Andrew Giardini         1.02.02.2
12 Jim Mihellis            1.04.48.1
13 Rob Marlow              1.10.27.3
14 Mike Smith              1.10.52.5
15 Lloyd Svenson           1.11.11.5
16 Scott Mallyon           1.12.40.6
17 Michael Hoare           1.15.17.1
18 Bernard Thomas          1.18.26.6
19 Ian Hogbin              1.20.09.0
20 Stephen Rugendyke       1.21.47.0
21 Craig Secombe           1.25.51.3
22 John Mcqueen            1.30.21.7
23 Peter Swann             1.30.23.4
24 Bruce Pain              1.31.54.1
25 Jeff Brunette           1.54.07.0
26 Martin Smith            1.54.27.5
27 Mark Fazackerley        2.25.12.2
28 John Thompson           2.31.28.6
29 Paul Sillato            2.31.44.1
30 Greg Seaegg             3.27.08.8
DNS Michael Vincent                
DNS Tony Bye                       
DNS Peter Gregg                    
DNF Paul Garaty                      
 
Women 40-49

1 Martine Scott            3.19.18.0
2 Jaye Gilcrest               7.50.3
3 Wendy Cummins              12.52.3
4 Dunlop Louise              14.27.7
5 Lisa Garaty                16.55.2
6 Kim Grylls                 26.20.6
DNF Michelle Giardini              
DNF Jenny Rigg                     
 
Men 50+

1 Jeff Dyball              2.44.07.5
2 Michael Hough               6.09.9
3 Ian Stewart                17.08.3
4 Malcolm Stayte             25.08.6
5 Peter Kemp                 36.57.6
6 Brian Biga                 41.35.8
7 Rod McNab                  43.49.3
8 Warren Prior               59.19.0
9 Jeff Paul                1.01.03.7
10 John O’Black            1.01.26.6
11 John Mills              1.04.25.4
12 Graham Patterson        1.11.03.4
13 Steve Richardson        1.14.37.2
14 Ronald Walker           1.18.15.4
15 John Tracy              1.24.13.8
16 Carl Richardson         2.01.10.0
17 Garth Sturman           2.18.39.3
18 Robert Goodwill         2.27.57.2
DNS Adrian Vringer                 
DNS Richard Lehnert                
DNF Michael Janek                  
DNF Stephen Way                    
DNF Nick Thompson                  
 
Women 50+

1 Gillian Duncan           3.39.59.8
2 Lesley Prior               41.27.4
 
Recreational Men

1 Silas Sutherland         1.13.20.7
2 Tim Jacobs                  1.00.0
3 Jaxon Mallinson             1.30.0
4 Jeremy Scott                1.39.2
5 Matthew Pryor               4.41.3
5 Darren West                      
5 Ben Graham                       
8 Stuart Bradbury            15.09.9
9 Grant Ashley               18.24.9
10 Michael Hennessy          37.43.5
11 Trent Jones               37.45.7
12 Sam Horspool              38.26.3
13 Barry Johnson             53.59.0
14 David Snow                55.12.8
15 Adrian Harrington         55.14.1
16 David Brett             1.25.25.4
17 Scott Payne             1.31.59.6
DNF Greg Rowlingson                
 
Recreational Women

1 Debbie Griffin           1.25.37.9
2 Budek Monika               18.30.2
3 Bobbie Crothers            25.29.9
4 Katey Cooke                26.17.5
5 Kirsty Field               27.24.4
6 Suzzi Byrne                29.18.7
7 Sue Webber                 47.56.7
8 Madeline Davis             48.00.7
9 Christina Wand             51.17.5
10 Andrea Harris             51.32.5
11 Helen Walker              52.00.9
12 Sandy Blackburn-Wright    55.15.9
13 Pratiwi Suwardi           55.18.2
14 Lisa Scott                59.46.0
DNS Cindy Mcnab                    
DNF Nicky Rowe